The Liners: Ships of Destiny - Episode 3: The Great Duel
Вставка
- Опубліковано 30 лип 2020
- Episode 3 of the documentary series "The Liners: Ships of Destiny."
From the launch of the Queen Mary to the beginning of the age of the jet airliner. 1932 - 1958
www.imdb.com/title/tt4451450/
Features such things as the duel over the Blue Riband between the Queen Mary and the Normandie, the Second World War, the Queen Elizabeth's fantastic maiden voyage and war service, and finally the two ship weekly transatlantic service achieved by Cunard White Star.
8:47 RIP my Grandfather so glad I can still see you on here. He loved The Queen Mary and was also on the very last voyage and got a medal that my uncle still has. He told me once they were in a huge storm and he had to jump on two kids that were playing on deck as a huge wave washed over the ship, luckily he managed to save them from getting washed overboard.
He must have had an amazing career. When did he pass away?
@@jamesdawson1558 he passed away in 1999, I do remember visiting him when I was still young and he produced a newspaper showing my mother an article saying its Alfie an old crew mate of his and of course I had no clue who this person in the newspaper article was, he said his son was what he said was a pop star, It was Alfred Lennon it took quite a few years for me to figure It out and also being a Beatle fan feeling pretty dumb, his generation had no interest in pop so was more interested in seeing Alfred in the paper. Alfred ended up living in the new forest doing work where he lived at the locations like hotels etc
I was lucky enough to have met all thre of the great historians. JMG, Bill Miller and Frank Braynard. Warms my heart to hear them again. ❤️
Thanks for uploading these docs, very nostalgic. I remember watching them as a child and being fascinated. At school at the time we had to write our own short story, so I wrote an anthropomorphic first person account of the Queen Mary!
49:16 AQUITANIAS WHISTLE
Actually this is normandies horn cuz iff you listen closely its normandie
6:30 what a site
6:19
18:22
Does anyone know what the piece of music is called when they show the streets of New York @11:55 or what orchestra played it?
10:17
For what it's worth the Normandy was a far sleeker , beautiful ship than the QM
Agreed.
No way
Who ultimately cares? Not I, that's for sure. 👎
@@veritas41photo just appreciation of beauty. Thats one of the things that makes life worth living. They're both fine ships, everyone has their own opinion. Normandy was more pleasing to the eye IMO.
@@wimspreeuwenberg2516 beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
The dated, snobbish, hyper-upper-class-British-accented narrators of the newsreels of the day make me nauseous. It is beyond disgusting. Nothing could criticize the stupid, arrogant British class system more accurately.
Don't take this the wrong way, but your comments make me nauseous. Just like the other person said "Just don't comment" Sinkings back then we're more common cause technology wasn't that known then. But because of those disasters like Titanic we haved learn much more about safety at sea and we have learned more about designs and people on the sea lanes etc. Ships today are designed for the ocean but less than transatlantic liners cause today ships are Cruise Ships for holidays. Transatlantic liners are designed to cope for the North Altantic and other oceans. The only true ocean liner is the Queen Mary 2.
Your hyperbole is beyond amusement and demonstrates your own diminutiveness in original thought and insight Perhaps you are becoming intoxicated by your own verbosity, or, rather, the verbosity of others?
*bait thrown and waits for the bite*...
With the greatest respect, your looking at this through the wrong lense and the wrong angle.
The accented narrators weren’t, there because they were upper class, most of the newsreaders of the day, we’re definitely not from the aristocracy.
But because there were and still are so many different accents and dialects throughout the UK and indeed the commonwealth and former empire, not everyone would be able to understand what they were saying. Much like someone who spoke with a broad Scottish accent would struggle to make someone who spoke a broad Yorkshire accent understand one another.
To try and counter it, the newsreel companies of the day, chose readers for their diction and pronunciation, so that no matter where in the world the newsreels were seen they would be understood.
This changed as years progressed when there became more regional radio programming post 2nd World War.